I feel like I’ve been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god

  • NotJustForMe@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Isn’t nix mostly for multi-system install? I did the nix thing a few years ago, spent a month on the config, and then never needed it again. Personally, I don’t see a use-case for single desktop installation ;)

    • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
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      9 months ago

      I use multiple systems and even I feel NixOS is overkill, especially with their confusing and sometimes incomplete documentation.

      On the other hand, Nix the package manager has been fantastic - especially if you’re on an immutable OS, or running some ancient “stable” distro - you can get all the packages you want, without breaking your system - and no need to learn the Nix language and write convoluted config files.

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      9 months ago

      I’m running nix on my PC turned server, and there’s definitely a lot of advantages…I highly recommend it for people who can pick up languages easily and prefer fixing a problem once by brute force trial and error.

      Doing easy things is much harder, but doing hard things can be laughably easy

      I probably wouldn’t pick it as-is for my primary PC, but for a server? Amazing.

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      9 months ago

      I guess you like to waste a whole day getting your machine back to the exact old configuration then.